Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
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If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.
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To advise is not to compel.
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Only entropy comes easy.
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.
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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
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Conciseness is the sister of talent.
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Man is what he believes.
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The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
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